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we told you president obama had moved his speech planned parenthood from thursday to friday night. it will not be the keynote address but he is still speaking. thanks for watching. >> shepard: have a great afternoon. news begins anew on "studio b." a store clerk confirms one of the boston marathon terror suspects bought fireworks a few months ago. specifically the most powerful fireworks which he may have used in the deadly bombings. we'll speak live with the store manager coming up. fox news spoke to the father of the two suspects after the fbi questioned him in russia. plus police say a shooting at a home left five people dead and a 6-year-old girl in the hospital. details on the dramatic search for the suspect all ahead unless breaking news changes everything on "studio b."
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but first from fox at 3:00 in new york city. the dead boston bombing suspected wanted the biggest, loudest explosives he could get. that from the clerk who told him the fireworks that may have been used in the attack. the new details coming out as investigators try to piece together how it happened and critical warnings were ignored. the fbi is pushing back against claims russia issued warnings about the dead suspect. officials say they received one warning that tamerlan tsarnaev might have extremist ties. after intel hearings on capitol hill, lawmakers say russia gave the u.s. repeated warnings, one after the fbi determined the suspect was not a threat. that's raising the question, did russia give the information to other u.s. agencies which never shared it. catherine herridge is joining us. we'll start with jonathan hunt
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live in the studio. we're learning about the fireworks and where they came from. >> massachusetts bans the sale of all fireworks so apparently back in february, tamerlan tsarnaev drove to new hampshire and bought two kits known as lock and load. according to the reporting of ron ralston, he paid $200 for one. got the other one for free by signing up for a loyalty card using his massachusetts driver's license. now the vice president of phantom fireworks, the company based in ohio, says that he does not believe the powder from those lock and load kits was used in the boston attacks. listen. >> i just don't think they would have been able to mine enough powder from these products to produce that. the other part is that we all
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saw the explosion and it was gray smoke. you saw no color. no fireworks effect. no whistle, no crackle. >> it's important to point out the fbi said they believe at this stage the explosives use in the boston attacks were consistent with the type found in some fireworks. >> shepard: we know terrorists used fireworks before. >> feizel attempted to blow up a car bomb in times square in 2010. he, according to officials, did use fireworks. now, obviously his bomb did not work for whatever reason. it did not detonate. but we do know al-qaeda has talked about the use of fireworks in their inspire magazine to make explosives. as we've reported meantimes, the same al-qaeda magazine talks about using pressure cookers.
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>> shepard: thank you. let's bring in april walton, manager of the phantom fireworks store in sea brook, new hampshire. >> thank you. >> tell me how this went down. >> the suspect came in on february 6th. it was just a little bit before closing and my assistant manager, megyn, was working and he came in and signed up at the front end. we have a loyalty card for buy one, get one free. he signed up like an average customer. >> shepard: what did he ask for? >> he asked for our loudest, most powerful firework but that's a question that is asked by a large majority of our customers. they want the biggest bang for their buck, goes the highest and has the most noise and pretty colors. >> shepard: i ask that question myself. that didn't raise any flag. >> no. >> shepard: did she say anything about his demeanor?
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>> the reason she remembered him, obviously this time of year we're not very busy, and once it came out he had shopped here and megyn waited on him. as soon as i told her he was here in early february and bought the lock and load kit, she remembered him instantly. >> shepard: did he say anything else besides i want the loudest, most powerful? >> just walking along shopping with her like any other customer. he asked her to direct him to the loudest, most powerful fireworks. >> shepard: lazy, easy, nothing unusual. >> he was not overly friendly or rude. just an average customer that didn't raise any alarms. >> shepard: i know it has to be weird knowing that you ran across the guy. >> it's chilling. shocking that -- it's not a pleasant thought. >> shepard: well, all the best to you guys. have the investigators talked to you or your employee? >> the investigators are coming this afternoon to talk to megyn
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and eve been working with our corporate office in ohio. >> shepard: all right. well, april walton, the manager of the fireworks store where the older of the brothers bought the fireworks. all the best to you. >> thank you. u.s. government constantly vets immigrants seeking asylum. including the future terror suspects. >> they're vetted from the time they apply to the time between when they're told they're going to be a citizen and they take the oath at a ceremony. so we're continually revetting, going back, checking, checking, checking, checking. in this instance, in boston, the systems contained no derogatory information as to either brother. >> shepard: remember we learned russia asked the fbi to investigate the older suspect, tamerlan tsarnaev, two years ago. u.s. investigators cleared him saying there was nothing unusual there. catherine herridge is live in
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washington. not every official seems to be on the same page about his travel to russia. >> that's right. the administration is struggling to reconcile conflicting statements and whether the older brother was radicalized or picked up bomb making skills overseas. the secretary of state linked the -- >> we had a young person who went to russia and chechnya who blew people up in washington. he came back with a willingness to kill people. >> the white house and state department briefings, the administration appeared to dial back and criticize secretary kerry's assessment. >> the secretary was expresses broad concern about radicalism and not offering specific information about the case. but the context of how that came up was really radicalism. >> i think that in a situation like this, we ought to let the
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investigators do their work and not jump to conclusions as the president said on friday. >> an fbi team is on the ground with carney, adding they're in the russian republic to interview the tsarnaev parents. they want to know where he went, who he met with and if he had bomb making training. the fbi has tamerlan's computer and they're scouring it for contacts, including those overseas. >> shepard: hey, it's my understanding there's a lot of new information about the components in the bombs. >> fox news learned a joint intelligence bulletin from the fbi and homeland security was sent to local, state and federal law enforcement to update them on the forensics of the bomb, concluding the boston bombs were not identical. one had shall nell and nails and the other had only anyways. there was variation -- nails.
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there was variation in the wounds. they relied on components from a toy. an electric fusing system using components from remote control cars such as a transmitter and receiver pair and a controller used as a switch mechanism. the bombs used an explosive blend identical to what is found in fireworks. >> shepard: all right. katherine, good to talk to you. the father of the boston suspects still insists his sons were set up. as we reported the fbi wants to speak with him. now he's speaking to fox news. you'll hear more of what he told us coming up. prosecutors dropped all charges against the first suspect in the ricin case in mississippi. the person or persons who sent the poison letters is still out there. now the feds are paying a lot of attention to a tae kwon do instructor who is facing child
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♪ wireless is limitless. >> shepard: 13 minutes past the hour. new developments in the case of the poison letters somebody sent to the president and senator from mississippi. roger wicker. the investigation turned to another man in mississippi he. james everett dutschke, he's a one-time republican candidate for state office. he reportedly had an email feud and long running one with the former suspect, the man whom authorities released yesterday. at the same time the fbi and law enforcement agencies searched the new guy's home and took items with them. he claims he didn't send those letters. >> my family knows i don't have anything to do with this. the people that actually know me know i don't have anything to do with this. quite frankly the people that don't know that this is just
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crazy. >> shepard: james everett dutschke, his attorney tells fox news agents are searching his tae kwon do studio but still no arrest. with us, david katz from the fbi academy and special agent with the dea and founder of global security group. this is all very weird. first you have this elvis impersonator who is mentally off, according to the family, who is in this feud with this guy, who used to be a republican candidate in mississippi and i don't know, they all seem a little bit like they need a match under one level of the table. it's a little -- >> it is odd. what is most disturbing is the fbi continues to investigate in the press. this is something they need to change. >> shepard: they've been doing this for years. >> if you look back, they've hurt so many people. steven hatfield in the anthrax case. richard jewell in the atlanta
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bombing. these are people that were 100% innocent subjected to unnecessary scrutiny. if you conduct and investigation, do it privately. you're law enforcement officers, not members of the media. they need to get that straight right away. >> shepard: you said stop holding a news conference every time you catch a cat. >> i've done hundreds of investigation,s you don't do a news -- >> you do a news conference when you have a photo you need out there. you need the public's help. >> exactly right. plus, think about what it does to the jury pool. so much information comes back, try to give a guy a fair trial when you catch the right person. it's not fair and it's not professional. >> shepard: elvis guy, i wonder if he has recourse here. >> it's a good point. in this particular case, all the fbi agents need is probable
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cause. he was a serial letter writer. they had a nexus to a letter kind kc and other letters sent to senators and congressmen and government officials. what i don't get is how did we get a search warrant? you need probable cause. not to say we have an interesting suspect. you need probable cause to substantiate something relative will be found in his house. he didn't do it. how did they swear out a warrant? >> shepard: they claimed they were framed but the dutschke guy. we wouldn't have been putting names and pictures out there except all this came from the fbi. >> exactly right. they have only themselves to blame. it's high profile and the public demands quick action. you have a biological weapon sent to the president. you have to act on it but quietly, professionally and make information known as needed in
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the investigation or when you make an arrest. >> shepard: they sent this to a local judge in north mississippi plus the mississippi senator, roger wicker and the president. they're going to find out. they're searching his tae kwon do studio. >> strang. >> now that alleged terror plot to attack a train in canada that goes from new york city to toronto. the suspect told the judge criminal code is not a holy book. his rambling statement and apparent challenge to the court's power to try him. this is new video of the suspect arriving at the courthouse in a police car. we still haven't gotten a good look at the suspect. i should say either suspect. investigators say they planned to blow up a railroad bridge in canada as a train to new york city. to or from, was crossing. the prosecutors said the men had support from members of al-qaeda in iran. not state sponsored but individual men's. the iranian foreign minister
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spoke and called the link between al-qaeda and iran the most hilarious thing i've heard in my 64 years, to say that al-qaeda and iran don't see things the same way is a understatement. pandemonium in bangladesh, at least 87 people are confirmed dead and more than 1,000 of them hurt. let's get to that video. here it is. just an incredible scene there. still pictures from above showing people wandering over the huge pile of debris, trying to find people alive. officials say the building housed several garment factories. the upper floor crashed on to the lower floors, panicked survivors stampeded from the scene as rescues tried to pull victims from the rubble. this after a fire in a nearby factory killed more than 100 people in november. there's terrific video of this that paints the story.
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>> shepard: a memorial today for the man the police called the fourth and final victim of the boston bombing suspects. m.i.t. police officer sean collier was 26 years old. 10,000 people crowded the campus for the service. mourners stretched a mile and a half. vice president joe biden spoke saying boston's response to the attack is proof terrorism is
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losing. >> it is not gaining adherence. what galls them the most is america does remain that shining city on the hill. >> shepard: investigators say the suspect shot officer collier several times in his patrol car. we don't know the motive. the police commissioner called it a vicious assassination. somber day there. >> i tell you, not only is it a somber day but a day of reflection, the day the people on the m.i.t. campus remain stunned. it was a massive emotional tribute to the young officer held in the briggs athletic field of m.i.t. he was 26 years old, the same age of the graduate students at m.i.t. as you said, he was sitting in
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that patrol car on the early morning hours friday when allegedly shot in the head by the tsarnaev brothers. vice president joe biden led the mourners and spoke from the heart looking directly at sean's parents. biden lost his first wife and young daughter in a car crash in 1972. when he told sean's mother and father no child should predesees their parents. he had blunt words for jihadism that apparently took sean's young life. >> they surely know they can never defeat us, they can never overthrow us. they can never occupy us, so why? why, whether it's al-qaeda central or two twisted perverted, cowardly, knockoff jihadys in boston. why do they do what they do? they do it to instill fear.
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>> reporter: sean's brother said he was born to be a police officer. the campus was hit hard. a lot of students shocked, others didn't want to talk to us, more than a week later. he was beloved. he wasn't just a security officer he was almost one of them. he went hiking and -- with the students and went to dances. he was going to join the somerville police department and, by the way, there is a medal now being honored by m.i.t. called the collier medal. here's a student who reflected on what happened. >> i really value and revere the sacrifice that he made for this community. it really brings to mind how wonderful it is there are people who do value the m.i.t. community and the boston community to such an extent that they can put their lives on the line for it.
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>> reporter: that medal, the collier medal, will be given to a student every year for someone who displays the same dedication of values as sean collier did. >> eric, thank you very much. today the area around the attack site opened to the public. traffic resumed along boston's boylston street right where the bombs went off near the finish line. it's far from business as usual. shops are boarded up, windows blown out. a handful of roses sits at the first bomb site where crews repaired the broken concrete and people continue to wander by and pay respects today. one of our producers said everybody wants to be on boylston street today. both parents of the two bombing suspects plan to travel to the united states from russia soon. that's what the father tells us. now we're learning cops could arrest the mother if she sets foot on u.s. soil. no relief in sight for the rain
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>> shepard: i'm shepard smith, this is "studio b." it's the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. the father of the b terror suspects tells fox news the fbi questioned him in russia and says he asked questions of the
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fbi. the father says he still believes both his sons were innocent. the victims of some sort of setup. he denies his older son hung out with extremists and he plans to travel to the united states with the mother of his two sons. trace gallagher has more. the mother may very well have serious legal problems if she goes to the united states. >> she's wanted on a warrant for shoplifting for allegedly stealing $1,600 worth of clothing from lord & taylor in boston. she was supposed to appear in court in october and missed the date. like the father, she maintains her sons were set up. she claims they took away her younger son's voice to prevent him from telling the truth and claims she encouraged her older son so embrace islam to get away from the smoking and drinking and womanizing and the fbi knew all about tamerlan. >> he was controlled by fbi like
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for five -- three, five years. they knew what my son was doing. they knew what actions and what the sites on the internet he was going. they used to come home. they used to come and talk to me. they used to tell me that, you know, they are controlling him. >> reporter: now we're told the mother and father are planning to hold a new conference tomorrow. quite possibly here in the united states. >> shepard: that should be something. what else did the father tell you? >> reporter: well he says his investigation, his questioning and interview with the fbi was calm and normal and the agents were polite to him. but the father, who was a lawyer in russia, says he still has many questions for the fbi, still needs many answers and not only does the father believe his sons were framed but says his oldest son, tamerlan, was not killed during the shootout with police.
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>> i know it 100%. my son was alive on the video. we saw it with our own eyes. he was arrested. there is video of the arrest. he was undressed and put in a car and drove away. when they say my son was shot, that he was lying in the road, that is completely not true. he was calmly arrested. that's all. >> reporter: tamerlan's body has not been taken into custody. the parents say they would like to bring the body back with them to russia. >> shepard: trace gallagher, it's my understanding a local boston mosque wouldn't have a -- wouldn't have a funeral for him. is that true? >> we're checking that out. we heard those reports. it's not been confirmed but we heard that. the parents said they would like to take the body home and give it a proper muslim burial in the homeland. >> shepard: thank you. if this does make it to trial, the defense strategy is clear.
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all they want to do is avoid the death penalty. with us, rebecca rosewoodland live in the studio. it's my understanding this guy has a pretty good defense team. a high profile attorney about whom we have information. >> we have a lot of information. miriam conrad is the head of what we call the public defenders office. he said in his hospital bed, the one word he said was, no meaning i cannot afford an attorney. under our constitution we provide defendants with attorneys. we're providing him with this woman who is known, a known defense attorney, she defended the shoe bomber. >> shepard: richard reed. >> she defended him. she has herself, a man named mr. fisk, a yale educated, highly prominent defense attorney and they'll call in death penalty experts.
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>> shepard: you have to figure that -- i don't know what grounds they'll take. i guess try to say the older brother brainwashed him. >> in this situation, when -- we're not sure yet about the death penalty. but they have to start preparing for that. so they're going to call psychiatrists in to say well, did your older brother put you unduress? did he force you, those are all mitigating circumstances to get you out of death pennant to life in prison. they might look at a plea deal. hey, u.s. attorney, we'll give. >> shepard: we'll give you everything. >> he'll take life in prison but don't give him the death penalty. they'll review the videotape evidence to say does he look pushed into this. maybe there are other people involved. these are things they'll focus on or mentally, is he in his right state of mind notwithstanding the brother.
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>> shepard: i'm out of time but how unusual would it be for the federal government to use a federal -- use the federal death penalty case in a state where the death penalty is not allowed. >> they've done it before and there's someone on death row in massachusetts with an appeal pending. a man brought to the death penalty, convicted in massachusetts by federal authorities but his appeal is pending. >> shepard: all right. rebecca, nice to see you. >> nice to see you too, shep. >> shepard: what a mess. the rain and flooding keep coming across the midwest. several states expected to remain under warnings for the rest of the week with rivers and other waterways nearing record levels. some of the hardest hit areas in western illinois along the mississippi river. many have already evacuated. those who stayed are struggling to pump thousands of gallons of floodwaters from their homes every hour. rick, it just keeps coming. >> a strange situation. the high plains, we have extreme
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drought. over here towards the mississippi river, that's where we have the flooding going on. this area, the mississippi river, last summer had record lows after the summer before with record highs so we're in a significant seesaw pattern. more rain moving across the area where we saw the flooding. this is happening from 5 to 7 inches that fell last week and the water moving down the river towards the mississippi river. we saw maybe another inch in a few spots, isolated spots with an inch and a half of rain. this is part of the mississippi river watershed. we have another flooding situation we'll see this weekend, the red river that's up in towards fargo and grand forks, north dakota. look at this. they've had a lot of cold temps and snow in the area and it's cold now. this weekend, a major warmup, temps in the 70s and we're going to see major flooding toward monday and tuesday. a 20-foot rise in the river. that river, of course, flows to
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the north. >> shepard: as it continues to go down the mississippi, are they going to have problems in memphis and vicksburg or will it -- >> you're referring to two years ago with the historic flood. it will not be that kind of event. places will get to moderate and major but not record-breaking unless we see incredible rainfall the next couple weeks and we don't have indications of that. >> shepard: glad to hear that. yesterday we told you about the false report of the associated press twitter feed. stocks tanked down 150 points after hackers sent out a fake tweet about a situation at the white house which i'm tired of saying because it didn't happen. if someone knew it was coming and made stock trades at the right time, how fun it would have been to ride that dip. short it all and then -- anybody did that, might they have been responsible? we'll check into it.
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>> shepard: 18 minutes before the hour. new information about the fake tweet from "the associated press" account that tanked the financial markets. the tweet gave out information about something that happened at the white house that wasn't true. it was false. before the ap cleared it up the dow plunged. more than $136 billion of the s&p value wiped out in seconds. "the associated press" admits
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one of its employees may have given away company passwords. there was talk of a phishing attack, an email scam. the ap twitter feed is back on line. no comment from twitter. with us, vick nasta. >> i'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. >> anytime you sign up for service on the internet you run this risk. >> shepard: falling for a phishing attack, as much as we know, we know what they're doing but somebody falls for it. >> they scare you so you're on the defensive. someone's gotten into your account, let us fix it quickly. give us your old password and we'll take care of it. someone that's on the defensive and thinks like we do, these are insecure, sometimes falls for that sunny wonder if someone who
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sent the tweet rides the market. >> that's the issue with phishing. this is going beyond pranks to market manipulation. i would not be surprised if that will be, if not already, the objective of this kind of thing. >> shepard: that's the kind of thing they'll not look lightly at. >> it's serious, the very reason it took so long for the fcc to approve this methodology, these tweets. >> shepard: when i log into my gmail, it sends something to my phone and then i have to put a code in, a two-step verification and twitter is working on that. >> absolutely. what you just nailed will reduce those issues by 95%. basically, yes, they ask you a question that relates to the either something you personally know or send a message to something you have that limits the possibility that someone faked you for one password.
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it gives you two chance to say screw up. >> shepard: then google verifier which you carry on your smartphone. it adds a great layer of security. >> it does, it allows you to know that you won't necessarily be the fool this time around. >> shepard: because if somebody were to come up with your password and your log in i.d., once it goes in there, all of a sudden your phone's going to ding and you'll look down and say enter this verification code, which you can do, unless you're not logging in. >> you would interest to fall for the scam and lose your phone. >> you would have to be drunk and high. not happening. with travelers facing more delays, the political finger pointing in washington intensified. the federal aviation administration on the hill and lawmakers grilled this guy.
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some saying the faa should have warned congress but consequences. >> how come you didn't tell us beforehand, the sequester impact on the furloughs? not a word. >> the congressman echoed republicans in blaming the obama administration but the faa says the agency had no choice but to give furloughs to save money. got to save money because it went into effect. sequester isn't so much fun. mike emanuel, you would think they could find a better place. under the budget the president submitted, they get more money now than if the budget passed. >> it's a head scratcher. republicans say the faa has been mismanaged. there's clearly irritation that 10% of the country's air-traffic controllers have been furloughed and some suggestedlet money
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should come from elsewhere in the faa budget. >> these are all bad choices. i acknowledge that. but in order to comply with the guidelines of the sequester law, we have to take these actions. >> i wish you would have told us earlier so we had a chance to plan. >> lawmakers told him they knew the cuts were coming but only get the details of how they'll be carried out last week. >> shepard: with everybody in the country screaming and yelling and 3-hour delays, my guess is they're going to figure something out. >> well, that's what everybody's waiting for. which side will blink first. one lawmaker representing the chicago area, a democrat, said what about the idea if you avoided the nation's largest and busiest airports, think o'hare, thinking that would be good for the traveling public. >> with all due respective a hard time believing that atlanta, chicago, and several
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other hubs, impact on the entire system is, even with connectivity, is a lot bigger no matter how you slice this. >> there are a number of questions about safety and he was asked several times about that. he insists there will be no impact on safety, just efficiency. >> shepard: mike emanuel, thank you. >> word the new strain of bird flu spread outside of china's mainland. what officials in the united states are doing to prepare in case the virus comes here. nearly six months after he resigned as the cia director over an affair, general petraeus has a new job. he's a teacher. details next. ong ♪ ♪ i don't wanna be right [ record scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you.
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the new strain of bird flu reportedly killed 23 people in china and sicked others. it's one of the most lethal of its kind. more serious than the last bird flu. the first reported case out of china, in taiwan, here in the united states the centers for disease control and prevention reports it's preparing a rapid test kit for public health officials. a bird flu expert notes inunclear how people are being affected. john roberts with the news he's in atlanta. it looks more serious by the day. >> certainly does. health officials around the world and here at the centers for disease control in atlanta very worried about this new
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virus, h7n9 that is it is human to human transmission. the cdc is watching for the first signs of a possible pandemic. >> there are three clusters of infections, two or three infected members of the same household, the same family. in these cases it's difficult to know whether one human in the family spread it to another human or they both acquired it from an infected bird. >> reporter: the cdc making available the kits to public health offers and racing to develop a vaccine. now word one sample of the virus they got in from china was showing signs of mutation that had they continued, could have potentially rendered front line antiviral drugs ineffective. >> if this one had been able to overcome the final step, it could have become resistant to the drugs. it hadn't gotten there but we could tell by looking it was on
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the way there. >> that would be problematic. >> it would. >> we're very close to a perfect storm. a deadly virus, new in humans, no vaccine and could become resistant to our front line antiviral treatments. if it develops broad, easy transmission between humans, it could be real trouble. >> shepard: john, thank you. the former cia director, david patrice is visiting professor at the city university in new york. the chancellor says his students will have a chance to learn from a, quote, distinguished leader. general petraeus resigned after the fbi found he had an afared with his biographer. general petraeus is pleased with the opportunity and identifies with most of the students there. the job starts in august. mormon bishop by day, sword waving wore i don't warrior by .
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a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your doctor should balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, like celebrex, ibuprofen, naproxen and meloxicam have the same cardiovascular warning. they all may increase the chance of heart attack or stroke, which can lead to death. this chance increases if you have heart disease or risk factors such as high blood pressure or when nsaids are taken for long periods. nsaids, like celebrex, increase the chance of serious skin or allergic reactions
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and just came like this and told him to get down on the ground. >> shepard: he did that. he says the attacker ran off and drove off but dropped a chapstick so the bishop yelled, i've got your dna and your license and you're done. the suspect surrendered to police an hour later. then there's this before we wrap it up. a store owner in california turned an attempted burglary into a moneymaker. look. ♪ >> meats and groceries, award-winning new york stye pastrami. so good, some people will do just about anything. >> the store owner got hundreds of thousands of dollars of free exposure. it only cost $500 to fix the

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